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The Alaskans

TV·1959–1960·1 season, 36 episodes·ABC·Western, Drama·1h

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The Alaskans is a 1959-1960 ABC/Warner Brothers western television series set during the late 1890s in the port of Skagway, Alaska. The show features Roger Moore as "Silky Harris" and Jeff York as "Reno McKee", a pair of adventurers intent on swindling travelers bound for the Yukon Territories during the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. Their plans are inevitably complicated by the presence of singer "Rocky Shaw", "an entertainer with a taste for the finer things in life". The show was the first regular work on American television for the British actor Roger Moore.

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01The Alaskans S01E05Starvation StampedeS01E05 · 8.0A supply ship is trapped in an early freeze on its way to an isolated mining town. the greedy town storekeeper takes advantage of this mishap, forcing the miners to pay exorbitant prices for food and supplies.

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Episodes by season

Season0136Episodes1959–60Aired 8.0Season avg
  1. S01E01The Alaskans S01E01Gold SledOctober 4, 1959Silky Harris and Reno McKee are preparing to travel to the Klondike in search of gold. Entertainer Rocky Shaw, intrigued by a weird tale of
  2. S01E02The Alaskans S01E02Cheating CheatersOctober 11, 1959Skagway saloon owner Nifty Cronin agrees to ship gold dust to the States for Silky Harris, Reno McKee and a number of other miners. En rout
  3. S01E03The Alaskans S01E03The Devil Made FiveOctober 18, 1959Reno takes a dangerous job carrying a load of dynamite but along the way, picks up a few strangers.
  4. S01E04The Alaskans S01E04The Petticoat CrewOctober 25, 1959Silky Harris dreams of a financial coup when he decides to ship a boatload of dancing girls and Thanksgiving turkeys from Seattle to Dawson.
  5. S01E05The Alaskans S01E05Starvation StampedeNovember 1, 1959 8.0A supply ship is trapped in an early freeze on its way to an isolated mining town. the greedy town storekeeper takes advantage of this mish
  6. S01E06The Alaskans S01E06Big DealNovember 8, 1959Silky Harris and Reno McKee find a lost legal document and try to locate the owner. they stumble on a swindle scheme.
  7. S01E07The Alaskans S01E07Contest at Gold BottomNovember 15, 1959Nifty Cronin threatens to foreclose a mortgage on Silky and Reno's mining property unless they can meet their next payment. Meanwhile, a ba
  8. S01E08The Alaskans S01E08Winter SongNovember 22, 1959Silky, Reno and Rocky plan to stage a concert with opera star Maria Julien. Arriving in Eagle City to perform before a packed house, Miss J
  9. S01E09The Alaskans S01E09The Golden FleeceNovember 29, 1959Four men assault Silky Harris' partner Reno McKee and then purchase an apparently worthless gold mine.
  10. S01E10The Alaskans S01E10Doc BookerDecember 6, 1959Doc Booker and his new bride act to stop a typhoid epidemic. Then a woman tells the citizens that Booker isn't a real doctor.
  11. S01E11The Alaskans S01E11The Abominable SnowmanDecember 13, 1959A miner dies after being attacked by a weird monster. It is decided that the dead man's gold mine will go to the winner of a race between S
  12. S01E12The Alaskans S01E12Remember the MaineDecember 20, 1959A con man named Soapy suddenly gets patriotic and organizes a special Skagway Guard to march off to the Spanish-American War. Silky Harris i
  13. S01E13The Alaskans S01E13Million Dollar KidJanuary 3, 1960Reno McKee and Rocky Shaw encounter a young Indian named Kat who wants to go to the United States. The youth decides to trade some shares i
  14. S01E14The Alaskans S01E14The Trial of Reno McKeeJanuary 10, 1960Reno McKee is held for murder, although Silky Harris and Rocky Shaw know that someone else is responsible for the crime. The only way to ke
  15. S01E15The Alaskans S01E15Gold FeverJanuary 17, 1960Reno McKee's younger brother Danny comes to Skagway with his new bride. Reno wishes them will and offers a mine partnership to Danny, but t
  16. S01E16The Alaskans S01E16The ChallengeJanuary 24, 1960The town is threatened by an impending avalanche, and Silky Harris volunteers to climb a mountain and set off some blasts which will divert
  17. S01E17The Alaskans S01E17The Long PursuitJanuary 31, 1960Chicago detective Ed Bundy has traced a suspected murderess to an Alaskan village. On the trail to the town, Bundy saves Reno McKee's life,
  18. S01E18The Alaskans S01E18Spring FeverFebruary 7, 1960Furious because Silky's taking her for granted, Rocky casts about for someone else to encourage. She comes up with a gentleman named Gordon
  19. S01E19The Alaskans S01E19Black SandFebruary 14, 1960Reno strikes out with Dan and Nora Weber to locate a lost gold mine. Along the trail, two other men join the group, and Reno becomes suspic
  20. S01E20The Alaskans S01E20The Seal Skin-GameFebruary 21, 1960Silky, Reno and Rocky are conned into buying a bankrupt seal raising business. Silky begins to sound like a con man himself when he tries t
  21. S01E21The Alaskans S01E21Peril at Caribou CrossingFebruary 28, 1960Weather drives Silky to shelter at an isolated cabin. He sees that his arrival has complicated a family quarrel, but before anything comes
  22. S01E22The Alaskans S01E22Behind The MoonMarch 6, 1960No sooner has a gold prospector made plans to marry an Indian girl than his backers plot to chase the Indians off the tribal land. It seems
  23. S01E23The Alaskans S01E23PartnersMarch 13, 1960Rocky and Reno tell young Jimmy Hendricks that his father died a hero. But the lad overhears the less heroic truth about his father, and di
  24. S01E24The Alaskans S01E24Disaster At Gold HillMarch 20, 1960Silky becomes involved in an explosive romantic triangle.
  25. S01E25The Alaskans S01E25The Last BulletMarch 27, 1960Silky rescues a man from a pack of wolves and takes him to a trail house occupied by a pack of human wolves.
  26. S01E26The Alaskans S01E26A Barrel Of GoldApril 3, 1960A prospecting party started out to find gold, but death makes a strike and the only survivors report they were poisoned with spoiled meat.
  27. S01E27The Alaskans S01E27The Bride Wore BlackApril 10, 1960Cass Wilson uses Silky's picture to win a mail-order bride. There is trouble when the girl arrives.
  28. S01E28The Alaskans S01E28Odd Man HangsApril 17, 1960Silky is one of the players in a strange game. He and two other men are jailed on a murder charge. Everyone is certain that one of them is
  29. S01E29The Alaskans S01E29CounterblowApril 24, 1960The Skookum Sentinel newspaper is handed over to Silky in payment of a debt. He finds himself with a ready-made crusade when his partner is
  30. S01E30The Alaskans S01E30Heart Of GoldMay 1, 1960Pierre Duran is transporting thousands of dollars worth of the miners' gold dust to Yukon City. On the way, he is hijacked and left for dea
  31. S01E31The Alaskans S01E31Kangaroo CourtMay 8, 1960Traveling alone in barren and isolated country, Silky comes upon a girl entertainer and her male companion. They ask for a lift to a new go
  32. S01E32The Alaskans S01E32The Silent LandMay 15, 1960Loading supplies for a remote outpost, Pierre Duran meets a Mountie who is trailing a pair of fugitives. Later, traveling deep into the Arc
  33. S01E33The Alaskans S01E33CalicoMay 22, 1960Silky Harris wins a half share in a gold mine. But there is a catch. His claim is forfeit unless he works it one day a week--and his partn
  34. S01E34The Alaskans S01E34Sign Of The KodiakMay 29, 1960Traveling in mountain country, Pierre Duran narrowly escapes death from a hunter's bullet. The marksman seems obsessed with killing Big Mik
  35. S01E35The Alaskans S01E35White VengeanceJune 5, 1960Silky Harris heads for old Gil Hawkins' mountain cabin to tell him his son has made a gold strike. But before Silky can identify himself, t
  36. S01E36The Alaskans S01E36The Ballad Of WhitehorseJune 12, 1960The Whitehorse saloon is decked out for a wedding. Robert Howard III, a drunken poet with six months to live, is marrying Yukon Kate, the q

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